INDEX 929
Arnhem,
Holland,
f
ailure of
Allied
oper-
ation
at,
879-880
Ascension
Island,
21 1
Ashburton-Webster
Treaty,
252,
257
fa.
Asquith,
Herbert,
prime
minister,
494,
495, 662, 663,
888 fa.
Assam,
211
Assembly,
57, 61,
148-150,
192,
406;
Canadian
problem,
37-41,
133-134,
185,249
Atomic
bomb,
865-866,
883
Attlee,
Clement
R.,
prime
minister,
901
Auckland,
George,
Lord,
governor
gen-
eral of
India, 334,
335
Australia,
25,
133, 164-165,
213,
224;
administrative
problems,
190-192;
constitutions,
1
9
1-1
92,
310-311,
382-383,
603-606;
colonization
plan,
298-301;
gold
rush
in,
379-384;
pat-
tern
of
society,
387, 388;
social
de-
mocracy,
497-502;
imperial
defense,
583-585, 588,
593-594;
federation
and
imperial significance,
585-586,
600-606;
political
disunity,
598-599;
organized
labor,
601-602;
govern-
ment
compared
with South
Africa,
618-620;
governor
general
in,
637;
growth
of
nationalism
in,
639-643;
white
Australia
policy,
641-642;
re-
action to
British
ultimatum,
1914,
690-691;
seizure
of
German
colonies,
1914,
692-693;
participation
in
World
War
I,
696-697,
702-703,
705-707,
715;
conscription
issue,
713-715,
917;
Imperial
War Confer-
ence,
728-729;
League
of
Nations,
736;
reaction
to the
new dominion
status,
743-744;
Statute
of Westmin-
ster
Adoption
Act,
762;
imperial
pref-
erence,
781-783;
reaction
to
coming
of
Second World
War,
810, 811,
814,
825,
830-831,
834, 838,
839;
reac-
tion to
struggle
in
Spain,
822,
823;
participation
in
World
War
II, 847,
848,
850-854,
856,
859, 860,
867,
873,
874;
exchange
of
ministers
with
Washington,
917-918.
See
also New
South
Wales,
Queensland,
South
Australia,
Tasmania,
and Victoria
Australian
Colonies
Government
Act of
1850,311
Austria,
687,
812;
Long
French
War,
83,84,89,91,92
Bagehot,
Walter,
256;
English
Constitu-
tion,
344
Bahamas, 26,
27,
64,
321-322,
399,
406,
911
fa.
Bakewell, Robert,
18
Balance
of
power,
80-81
Baldwin,
Robert, 259,
265
Baldwin,
Stanley, prime
minister,
750,
782
Baldwin,
William
Warren,
256
Balfour,
Arthur
James,
584
fa.,
747
Balfour
Report,
753
Balkans,
British
foreign policy
in,
7876,
454-457;
crisis
in, 1909,
687; wars,
688-689
Ballarat Reform
League,
382
Ballot
Act,
360
Baltic
powers,
Long
French
War,
84
Bank of
England,
240
Banking system,
240-241
Bantu, 273,
278-281
Barbados, 26, 27, 205, 396,
911
fa.;
administration,
60;
revenue
problems,
62-63,
64,
406;
impact
of
emancipa-
tion
on, 316;
black
society
in,
392-
393;
sugar production
and
export,
397-398
Bardia,
North
Africa, 850,
857
Baring,
Alexander,
21
5-216
Baring,
Sir
Evelyn,
515-516
Barkly,
Sir
Henry,
governor
of British
Guiana,
321;
governor,
South
Africa,
418
Basra,
Iraq,
8 54
Basuto
wars, 410, 411,
415
Basutoland,
South
Africa,
281,
556;
border
disputes,
408,
410,
415;
annex-
ation,
416,
464;
Union
of
South
Africa
demand
for,
914
Bataan
Peninsula,
859
Batavia,
858
Bathurst,
Earl, 186-187,
188, 189,
198,
199,203,204
"Battle of
the
Saintes,"
26
Bechuanaland, 520, 556,
914
Beelzebub,
Watt's
engine,
22
Belgium,
and
Long
French
War, 83,
85;
claims
in
Africa,
528-529;
strategic
position,
679-680;
invaded
by
Ger-
many,
689, 842,
843
Bengal,
430,
676, 885,
893;
East
India
Company,
120-125;
partition,
671,
672,
676,
895
Benghazi,
North
Africa,
850
Bentham,
Jeremy,
309
Bentinck,
Lord
William,
governor gen-
eral of
India,
329-330
Berchtesgaden,
conference
between
Chamberlain
and
Hitler,
832,
833
Berlin,
Congress
of,
1878, 455, 457,
687
Berlin
Act,
522